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Adja Yunkers Art

Adja Yunkers was an American abstract painter and printmaker. He was born in Riga, Governorate of Livonia, Russian Empire in 1900. Yunkers studied art in Leningrad, Berlin, Paris and London. He lived in Paris for 14 years and then moved to Stockholm in 1939. In Stockholm, he published and edited the art magazines ARS magazine and Creation magazine. Yunkers died in New York City in 1983.

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Artist: Adja Yunkers
NANIGOS - CUBA, 1927
By Adja Yunkers
Located in Portland, ME
Yunkers, Adja (American, born Latvia, 1900-1983). NANIGOS - CUBA, 1927. Miller 1. Color Woodcut. Edition of 250 published in Sweden in 1942 in the magazine Creation (Miller notes an ...
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1920s Adja Yunkers Art

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Woodcut

Summer in Venice
By Adja Yunkers
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Summer in Venice Lithograph printed in colors from five stones on Italian "Pascia" paper, 1966 Signed and dated lower left in pencil (see photo) The Print Club of Cleveland Publicati...
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1960s Abstract Adja Yunkers Art

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Lithograph

Mixed Media Collage Oil Painting Latvian American Modernist Artist Adja Yunkers
By Adja Yunkers
Located in Surfside, FL
Adja Yunkers, Latvian/American, 1900-1983. 1973 Mixed media collage painting with applied threads on canvas, Titled "Collage #67". Initialed "A. Y." and dated "'73" lower left, ...
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1970s Abstract Expressionist Adja Yunkers Art

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Mixed Media, Fabric, Oil

Pueblo, Abstract Expressionist Lithograph by Adja Yunkers
By Adja Yunkers
Located in Long Island City, NY
Adja Yunkers, American (1900 - 1983) - Pueblo, Year: 1977, Medium: Lithograph, signed and numbered in pencil, Edition: 56/70, Size: 33.5 x 25 in. (85.09 x 63.5 cm), Frame Size:...
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1970s Abstract Expressionist Adja Yunkers Art

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Lithograph

Echo in Grey
By Adja Yunkers
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Echo in Grey Mixed media intaglio with embossing, c. 1980's Signed and numbered in pencil (see photo) Edition: 25 (24/25) Condition: Soft handling issues in top and bottom margin. Do...
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1980s Abstract Adja Yunkers Art

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Mixed Media

Adja Yunkers, (Small Abstraction)
By Adja Yunkers
Located in New York, NY
The Adja Yunkers abstraction is a lithograph made in the first year of the iconic printmaking workshop Tamarind, founded by the great June Wayne (with Clinton Adams and Garo Antreasi...
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Mid-20th Century American Modern Adja Yunkers Art

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Lithograph

Adja Yunkers 1960 Abstract Lithograph
By Adja Yunkers
Located in San Francisco, CA
Adja Yunkers: 1900-1983. Well listed artist and printmaker. He was born in Riga Latvia and emigrated to the U.S. He is in the permanent collections of the Guggenheim and Museum of Mo...
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1960s Adja Yunkers Art

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Lithograph

"Moon Face" Original lithograph.
By Adja Yunkers
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist: Adja Yunkers Title: Moon Face Year: 1960 Medium: Lithograph Paper: B.F.K Rives Image size: 17 x 13 inches Signature: Signed in pencil by the artist. Publisher: Tamarind Workshop Printer: Bohuslav Horak...
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Mid-20th Century Abstract Adja Yunkers Art

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Lithograph

A II, Abstract Expressionist Screenprint by Adja Yunkers
By Adja Yunkers
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Adja Yunkers, American (1900 - 1983) Title: A II Year: 1972 Medium: Screenprint, Signed and Numbered in Pencil Edition: 2/50 Image size 40 x 30 inches Size: 41 x 31 in. (104....
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1970s Abstract Expressionist Adja Yunkers Art

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Screen

Adja Yunkers "Cameroon III" Mixed Media
By Adja Yunkers
Located in Detroit, MI
SALE ONE WEEK ONLY "Cameroon III" is an abstract acrylic collage and mixed media on canvas by the 20th century artist Adja Yunkers. This work is part of his "Cameroon" collage serie...
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1970s Abstract Adja Yunkers Art

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Fabric, Canvas, Mixed Media

Abstract Expressionist Silkscreen by Adja Yunkers 1972
By Adja Yunkers
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Adja Yunkers, Latvian/American (1900 - 1983) Title: untitled Year: 1972 Medium: Silkscreen with Embossing, Signed and Numbered in Pencil Edition: 70 Size: 24.75 x 30 in. (62....
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1970s Abstract Expressionist Adja Yunkers Art

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Screen

Pueblo, Abstract Expressionist Lithograph by Adja Yunkers 1977
By Adja Yunkers
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Adja Yunkers, Latvian/American (1900 - 1983) Title: Pueblo Year: 1977 Medium: Lithograph, Signed, Dated and Titled in Pencil Edition: 70, Shop Proof Size: 33.5 x 25 in. (85.0...
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1970s Abstract Expressionist Adja Yunkers Art

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Lithograph

Large Silkscreen Abstract Latvian American Modernist Artist - Rosh Hashana
By Adja Yunkers
Located in Surfside, FL
Red Echo Adja Yunkers b. 1900, Riga, Russia; d. 1983, New York Adja Yunkers was born Adolf Junkers on July 15, 1900, in Riga, Russia (now Latvia). He studied...
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20th Century Abstract Expressionist Adja Yunkers Art

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Mixed Media

City Walkers, Sanguine Drawing on Canvas
By Adja Yunkers
Located in Surfside, FL
Sanguine Drawing on Canvas Adja Yunkers b. 1900, Riga, Russia; d. 1983, New York Adja Yunkers was born Adolf Junkers on July 15, 1900, in Riga, Russ...
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1980s Abstract Impressionist Adja Yunkers Art

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Canvas

Morketiden II, Framed and Signed Abstract Screenprint by Adja Yunkers
By Adja Yunkers
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Adja Yunkers, American (1900 - 1983) Title: Morketiden II Year: 1973 Medium: Silkscreen, signed and numbered in pencil Edition: 10/175 Image Size: 15 x 17.5 inches Paper Size...
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1970s Abstract Adja Yunkers Art

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Screen

Blind Man's White Collage painting
By Adja Yunkers
Located in Surfside, FL
Mixed Media Collage Painting . signed and dated. Blindman's White Adja Yunkers b. 1900, Riga, Russia; d. 1983, New York Adja Yunkers was born Adolf...
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20th Century Modern Adja Yunkers Art

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Mixed Media

Latvian Modernist 'The Sky Hides All It's Birds' Intaglio Etching Embossing
By Adja Yunkers
Located in Surfside, FL
Printed on Dark Paper a magnificent piece. this is an etching with embossing on black wove, J Barcham Green paper Publisher Styria Studio, chopmark lower left Adja Yunkers b. 1900, Riga, Russia; d. 1983, New York Adja Yunkers was born Adolf Junkers on July 15, 1900, in Riga, Russia (now Latvia). He studied art in Petrograd (now Saint Petersburg), but from 1917 to 1919 his schooling was interrupted by military service in the Russian army. Yunkers soon left Russia for Europe and traveled extensively for the next two decades, settling for long periods in Cuba, France, and Germany. During much of his early career, Yunkers was active in political as well as artistic movements. At times his political investments even outweighed his commitment to his art, and in 1936 he moved to Spain to fight in its civil war. When the war ended in 1939, he moved to Stockholm and began to focus on art making again. He became associated with the Swedish Surrealists and published three journals devoted to art and politics. These handcrafted publications signaled a strong interest in printmaking, and in the 1940s he made many woodblock prints depicting distorted objects and figural compositions that demonstrate the influence of German Expressionism on his work. In 1947, Yunkers moved to New York and began to teach at the New School for Social Research. After four tumultuous marriages, he married one of his former students from the New School, Dore Ashton, in 1952. Ashton became an art critic for the New York Times in 1955, and through her, Yunkers was introduced to the artists who would become known as the Abstract Expressionists. He began drawing with pastel directly on canvas, resulting in large-scale works that recall Color Field painting in their emphasis on the materiality of color. Expanding on this impulse, Yunkers's later work made extensive use of negative space, collage, and monochrome. The influence of Minimalism in this more reduced aesthetic is clear, and his canvases became more object-like. Both printmaking and bookmaking were central to Yunkers's oeuvre. He founded the Rio Grande Workshop in New Mexico (where he also taught) in 1949, publishing an entirely handmade art magazine called Prints in the Desert. In 1969 he illustrated a limited-edition book by the poet Octavio Paz, a collaboration that sparked both a friendship and a number of additional illustrated books in the years to come. Yunkers also produced two large public works on commission: A Human Condition (1966), a mural for Syracuse University, and a tapestry produced for Stony Brook University (1968), both in New York. Yunkers had his first solo exhibition in 1921 at the Maria Kunde Galerie, Hamburg, Germany. Later that same year, he was part of a group show featuring Eastern European and Russian artists, including Alexander Archipenko, Marc Chagall, and Vasily Kandinsky, held in Hannover, Germany. He was included in an exhibition organized by the Print Council of America entitled American Prints Today. A snapshot of the state of American printmaking at the time of the exhibition. Among the many featured artists were Josef Albers, Leonard Baskin, Ralston Crawford, Adolf Dehn, Fritz Glarner, Grace Hartigan, Jasper Johns, Ynez Johnston, John Paul Jones, Misch Kohn...
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1970s Modern Adja Yunkers Art

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Etching

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Adja Yunkers b. 1900, Riga, Russia; d. 1983, New York Adja Yunkers was born Adolf Junkers on July 15, 1900, in Riga, Russia (now Latvia). He studied art in Petrograd (now Saint Petersburg), but from 1917 to 1919 his schooling was interrupted by military service in the Russian army. Yunkers soon left Russia for Europe and traveled extensively for the next two decades, settling for long periods in Cuba, France, and Germany. During much of his early career, Yunkers was active in political as well as artistic movements. At times his political investments even outweighed his commitment to his art, and in 1936 he moved to Spain to fight in its civil war. When the war ended in 1939, he moved to Stockholm and began to focus on art making again. He became associated with the Swedish Surrealists and published three journals devoted to art and politics. These handcrafted publications signaled a strong interest in printmaking, and in the 1940s he made many woodblock prints depicting distorted objects and figural compositions that demonstrate the influence of German Expressionism on his work. In 1947, Yunkers moved to New York and began to teach at the New School for Social Research. After four tumultuous marriages, he married one of his former students from the New School, Dore Ashton, in 1952. Ashton became an art critic for the New York Times in 1955, and through her, Yunkers was introduced to the artists who would become known as the Abstract Expressionists. He began drawing with pastel directly on canvas, resulting in large-scale works that recall Color Field painting in their emphasis on the materiality of color. Expanding on this impulse, Yunkers's later work made extensive use of negative space, collage, and monochrome. The influence of Minimalism in this more reduced aesthetic is clear, and his canvases became more object-like. Both printmaking and bookmaking were central to Yunkers's oeuvre. He founded the Rio Grande Workshop in New Mexico (where he also taught) in 1949, publishing an entirely handmade art magazine called Prints in the Desert. In 1969 he illustrated a limited-edition book by the poet Octavio Paz, a collaboration that sparked both a friendship and a number of additional illustrated books in the years to come. Yunkers also produced two large public works on commission: A Human Condition (1966), a mural for Syracuse University, and a tapestry produced for Stony Brook University (1968), both in New York. Yunkers had his first solo exhibition in 1921 at the Maria Kunde Galerie, Hamburg, Germany. Later that same year, he was part of a group show featuring Eastern European and Russian artists, including Alexander Archipenko, Marc Chagall, and Vasily Kandinsky, held in Hannover, Germany. He was included in an exhibition organized by the Print Council of America entitled American Prints Today. A snapshot of the state of American printmaking at the time of the exhibition. Among the many featured artists were Josef Albers, Leonard Baskin, Ralston Crawford, Adolf Dehn, Fritz Glarner, Grace Hartigan, Jasper Johns, Ynez Johnston, John Paul Jones, Misch Kohn, Mauricio Lasansky, Vincent Longo, Ezio Martinelli...
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20th Century Abstract Expressionist Adja Yunkers Art

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Mixed Media, Etching

Morketiden, Abstract Expressionist Silkscreen by Adja Yunkers 1972
By Adja Yunkers
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Adja Yunkers, American (1900 - 1983) Title: Morketiden Year: 1972 Medium: Silkscreen, Signed and Numbered in Pencil Edition: 7/90 Size: 29 x 32.75 in. (73.66 x 83.19 cm)
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1970s Abstract Expressionist Adja Yunkers Art

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Screen

The Sky Hides All Birds Modernist Intagilo Print
By Adja Yunkers
Located in Surfside, FL
Adja Yunkers (1900–1983) was an American abstract painter and printmaker. He was born in Riga, Governorate of Livonia, Russian Empire in 1900. He studied art in Leningrad, Berlin, Pa...
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1970s Adja Yunkers Art

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Mixed Media, Intaglio

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